Atmosphere
The thin blanket of gases and dust particles that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
What is wind?
Any type of solid or liquid that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
These clouds are large, fluffy-looking clouds with flat bottoms.
What is a cumulus cloud?
A rumble resulting from hot air instantly expanding and cool air rushing in.
What is thunder?
The weight of the air.
What is air pressure?
The boundary where two like air masses meet.
What is a front?
Water droplets in the clouds that join together to form larger drops.
What is rain?
These types of clouds look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest clouds in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
Static electricity that moves between clouds or between the clouds and the earth.
What is lightening?
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
These move in large circular belts around the earth.
What are global winds?
What is freezing rain?
The prefix that is added to the names of some clouds to show that clouds are part of the middle altitude.
What is alto-?
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reaches down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
The highest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
These are influenced by temperature changes in a small area.
What are local winds?
Rain drops that freeze on their way to the earth and land as tiny ice pellets.
What is sleet?
These clouds are thin, curly-looking clouds seen high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
This explains that conditions are right for a type of severe weather, but the weather is not currently happening.
What is a weather watch?
What is the mesosphere?
Wind speed is measured by this instrument.
What is an anemometer?
Raindrops that are pushed up into tall clouds and frozen, causing layers of ice to be added as the pellets are blown upward again before falling to the earth.
What is hail?
The prefix that is added to the names of some clouds to show that clouds produce precipitation.
What is nimbo-?
A storm with spiraling winds that forms over the Atlantic Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean.
What is a hurricane?